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Celebrating Australian Greens MURRAY DARLING BASIN TASSIE FOREST PEACE DEAL THE NZ CAMPAIGN MEMBER PROFILES CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF THE AUSTRALIAN GREENS CLAIRE JANSEN HAS JUST HAD HER FIRST giving program. “Political parties need money to fund BOOK PUBLISHED, PLAYS ROLLER DERBY their campaigns. Financial support assists with our & SHE IS INVOLVED WITH THE GREENS... capacity to win seats, and when we win enough seats we have the opportunity to implement green policies laire (26 years old) of Hobart works for in government.” Tasmanian Greens Minister Cassy O’Connor, More and more supporters and members of The C volunteers for the Party, is a Greens Party Greens are choosing to join their state regular giving member AND a regular Greens donor. program. Regular gifts enable the party to plan and Claire joined The Greens in 2002 at the age of 16. budget for election campaigns – and manage the day “The Greens were a part of how I grew up. But to day running of the party. “I am glad to help – I know there’s also a time when you decide what you think that my contributions – along with those of others – for yourself and why, and that’s when I joined. help put the party in a stronger position to take on Growing up under John Howard, his policies towards the major parties on important issues of our time asylum seekers and refusal to apologise to the Stolen like climate change, treatment of asylum seekers and Generations, watching Labor get trumped by the equality for same sex marriages” forestry industry - the Greens offered a future for society and the environment that no other party did.” Claire’s keen interest in The Greens – and the future If you, like Claire, would like to become a regular donor of the party motivated her to join Tas Greens regular please fill out and send us the form below. YES! I will help the Greens create a cleaner, healthier and more sustainable Australia Please find my gift enclosed: $25 $50 $100 $250 Other $ Please make a donation OR I would like to have monthly donations of $ deducted from my credit card. by completing this form and mailing to: Please charge my: MasterCard Visa Australian Greens Card Number: The Australian Greens CVV No. (last 3 digits on back above signature) Expiry Date: / Reply Paid 1108 CANBERRA ACT 2601 Cardholder’s name as it appears on the card: Alternatively you Cardholder’s signature: Date: can make credit card donations by telephone 9am – 5pm weekdays: 1800 017 011 (free call) Please find enclosed a Cheque Money Order (payable to Australian Greens) or online at www.greens.org.au Address: Postcode: Telephone: Email: DOB: The first $1,500 of membership fees and/or donations to a political party from individuals in a financial year are tax deductible. 2 Green CONTENTS REGULARS 4 Editorial 6 Letters to the Editor ISSUE 36: May 2012 PUBLISHER: The Australian Greens PARTY NEWS EDITOR: Catherine Green (Seedpod) DESIGNER: Natalija Brunovs (Seedpod) 5 Over to Christine BOB BROWN COVER PHOTO: Natalija Brunovs 7 Denticare A campaign to sink your teeth into ISSN: 1443-6701 MARY HEANEY PRINTED BY: Printgraphics PrintGreen 8 Creating Policy for the New Political Environment PRINTED ON: Soverign Silk DAVE ABBOTT Soverign Silk is acid free, pH neutral, elemental chlorine free paper and manufactured using 26 Bob’s Last Back Page sustainable forestry practices. The mill has ISO BOB BROWN 14001 environmental management systems certification. Printed using vegetable based inks. 28 Greater than the Sum of Our Parts This publication is printed in Australia under ISO CHRISTINE MILNE 14001 Environmental Certifications. Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in Green magazine FEATURES are the views of the authors alone. They do not necessarily represent the views of the editors or of 9 The Murray-Darling Basin Plan: On the Brink of Failure The Australian Greens, staff, members, or sponsors. JONATHAN LA NAUZE Green magazine aims for its material to be accurate at the time of print but this is not always possible. 12 Response to The Murray-Darling Basin Plan article Green magazine is licenced under a creative commons attribution-noncommercial-no derivs 3 australia SENATOR SARAH HANSON-YOUNG licence. 14 War of Words Over Tasmania’s ‘Forest Peace Deal’ The Australian Greens wish to acknowledge that we are on indigenous ground – this land is the spiritual GEOFF LAW and sacred place of the traditional owners and their ancestors and continues to be a place of significance. 16 Observer Tree Further, we thank them for sharing this land with us MIRANDA GIBSON and agree to respect their laws and lores. GLOBAL NEWS 18 A Richer Campaign New Zealand is unleashing new ideas KYMBERLIE DIMOZANTOS 21 Global Dialogue 4th Forum of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations ALEX SURACE Subscribe! LOCAL ACTION DID YOU KNOW, you don’t have 23 Making Change Visible to be a member of the Greens to MARGARET HENDER subscribe to Green magazine? 24 A Cloud of Carbon Finding the best printer in a lot of hot air Now, of course we would prefer it if NIGEL QUIRK you were but if you’re still warming up for the main event of being a fully-fledged member, then why not get ready by subscribing to Green magazine? EDITORIAL & ADVERTISING [email protected] If you are a current member and 02 6140 3217 not receiving your very own copy of Green magazine in your letter box, check your subscription status with SUBSCRIPTION & MAILING INQUIRIES the Greens office in your state first greensoffi[email protected] before renewing. GPO box 1108 Canberra ACT 2601 SUBSCRIBE ONLINE www.greens.org.au/magazine COME AND SAY HI TO US ON FACEBOOK facebook.com/AustralianGreensmagazine Green 3 EDITORIAL CATHERINE GREEN AND NATALIJA BRUNOVS INVITE YOU TO MAKE YOUR SELF A CUP OF TEA, GRAB A COMFY SEAT AND SOAK UP THE NEW GREEN MAGAZINE WITH US. hen we first laid our eyes on the ad seeking new editors for Green magazine, our hearts jumped! It was a wonderful W possibility; looking after a publication that shares information we believe in. Doesn’t everyone dream of working on things with real meaning? And so we have happily thrown our heads and hearts into the publication. We’ve revisited the design and content to bring you what we think is an engaging, thought-provoking and pleasure-to-read Green magazine. But this is your magazine, so we would love your feedback. What do you want to read? What is your response to the articles? Would you like to write an article? Let us know. To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Australian Greens as a national organisation, we decided to interview people who have been members for 20 years or members who are 20 years old themselves. We had such a great response to this that we are featuring a handful of members each issue this year to share their stories with you. Let us know if you want to be one. We even baked a special cake to mark the occasion, sharing it with friends (who enjoyed licking the green icing off the beater). We hope you’ll imagine yourself as a part of the birthday of the Australian Greens and celebrate the unified success that the party has had in Australian politics. And it’s still growing strong! Please share this magazine with others. Let’s give it lots of traction by reusing, recycling and responding so that your magazine is read as much as possible! Catherine & Natalija Seedpod WE JUST CREATED A FACEBOOK PAGE - LIKE US! facebook.com/AustralianGreensmagazine Take one, pass it on... READ THIS MAGAZINE & THEN GET RID OF IT! We’d love every single person who receives Green magazine to talk to one other person about one of the articles, and then give them the magazine to read it for themselves. Imagine if we can get everyone to pass this magazine on to one other person, that’s twice as many people reading about The Greens, twice as many people learning about The Greens, and twice as many chances of people joining The Greens. And if the person you pass Green magazine onto reads this message too, well, then the whole cycle starts again! 4 Green PARTY NEWS OVER TO CHRISTINE BY BOB BROWN, FORMER GREENS PARTY LEADER s Leader of the Tasmanian Greens, Christine acclaim as it has Murdoch media condemnation. No Milne pursued the trio of values ‘clean, green Christine, no carbon package. A and clever’ for post-industrial Tasmania. With Tony Abbott says that, if elected next year, he will those three words she summed up where the island rescind the package and instead PAY the polluters to state’s future fortune lay after the age of dam-building reduce pollution, using taxpayers’ money. He’ll have and deforestation. to get past the Milne – Bandt – Di Natale – Siewert – Honing the message to local business, she called for Hanson-Young – Ludlum – Rhiannon – Waters – Wright products for both domestic consumption and export, – (new Tasmanian Senator) team first. A double– to be authentic. Label it truthfully. Avoid the artificial. dissolution election fought on this issue will lead to Go for quality. Call a spade a spade. more Greens being elected. It’s a word which sums up Christine herself: Christine’s breakfast table, like the average ‘authentic’. Top quality. And you can safely apply the Tasmanian wedgetail eagle’s nest, has a northeastly label to our new Deputy Leader, Adam Bandt, and their aspect and basks in the morning sunlight. She looks whole team. out over the blue waters of the Derwent River from Christine and I have been friends for nearly three suburban Hobart, and has a small, but bountiful, decades.
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